Duke Street has backed the acquisition of another business by portfolio company Compo, a European supplier of branded products for the home and garden. The business, Heinr Propfe Chem Fabrik GmbH, is a specialised family-owned business that develops and produces fertilisers using natural and organic raw materials. This deal follows the recent Compo acquisition of Störk, a producer of ecologically sustainable potting soils.    Compo can trace its roots to the 1950s, and it has been supporting gardeners across Germany and Europe ever since.    Duke Street has a strong record of investment in Germany, having previously acquired A-Rosa, the

Confianza Inc (Confianza) a provider of data analytics and machine learning to insurance agents, brokers, and carriers has held the first close of a seed funding round, led by Sandbox Insurtech Ventures. Founded in 2020 by seasoned insurance industry veterans Jeffrey Glazer and John Petricelli, Confianza empowers insurance intermediaries and carriers to make confident, data driven business decisions. The Company has built a leading third-party dataset from proprietary, licensed, and public sources incorporating over 270 million individuals, 170 million households, and 60 million large and small businesses, spanning more than 2,700 attributes.  Confianza’s unique advantage is the intelligence underlying the

British International Investment, the UK’s development finance institution, is joining Norfund, the Norwegian Investment Fund for developing countries, in its joint venture with Scatec ASA to provide capital for Africa’s hydropower sector. This will be the largest investment in hydropower in BII’s 74-year history, with up to $200 million of capital committed over the next several years. Norfund is seeding the partnership with their existing share in their joint venture with Scatec and further capital commitments of up to $100m over the next several years.   The investment extends and compliments BII’s and Norfund’s existing commitments and partnerships to powering

Battery Ventures, a global, technology-focused investment firm, has made a significant, majority investment in Titian Software Ltd, a UK company that develops innovative sample-management software and related services for life-sciences laboratories. Specific terms of the deal have not been disclosed.   Titian will use the new funds to support organic growth as well as potential future acquisitions.   Titian’s founder, Edmund Wilson, retains a meaningful ownership stake in the company and will remain closely involved in leading the business going forward.    Titian’s Mosaic helps researchers better manage and automate critical processes, allowing its customers to maximise research efficiency and

Ara Partners (Ara), a private equity firm that specialises in industrial decarbonisation investments, has acquired Genera Energy Inc (Genera), a manufacturer of non-wood agricultural pulp and moulded fibre products. Ara has also committed up to an additional $200 million of capital to support significant expansion of the company’s sustainable pulp and packaging business.   Proceeds from Ara’s investment will be used to develop additional integrated manufacturing facilities and expand moulded fibre production capacity, enabling production of more than 5,000,000 take out containers, plates, bowls, and other food and consumer packaging products every day, all made entirely from fibre crops and

Angeles Equity Partners (Angeles), in partnership with KJM Capital (KJM), has invested in OBS Holdings (Freymiller) a provider of refrigerated transport and freight brokerage solutions to support cold chain management. Angeles and KJM will partner with Freymiller President and CEO David Freymiller to drive the next stage of the company’s growth. Headquartered in Oklahoma City, Freymiller provides refrigerated load, dedicated refrigerated trucking, logistics brokerage, and intermodal transportation services over a national network of freight lanes. Supported by its efficient fleet of more than 600 tractors, in-house maintenance, and fleet dealership capabilities, Freymiller provides highly reliable, late-model equipment to support the

Prime Trust, a provider of financial infrastructure for fintech and digital asset innovators, has raised over $100 million in a Series B funding round.

AiVF, the developer of the first fully operational AI-based IVF software platform, has raised $25 million in a Series A round led by Insight Partners, a New York-based venture capital and private equity firm with participation from Adam Neumann’s Family Office, 166 2nd. AiVF will use the funding to fuel adoption of the company’s AI platform, EMA in the United States and Europe, expand its work force and develop additional solutions to drive a new generation of digital fertility care. The EMA platform provides an optimised end-to-end IVF journey to individuals seeking Assisted Reproductive Technologies for their family building. The